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Heater Fan quit

The heater fan in my 88 wagon has gone south. I took the dash part off to check the switch, levels 2 and 3 already didn't work, I was unable to get any power out of it. I then checked the fan, no power there either. Yesterday I smelled "something" burning, I think it was wires:rolleyes: , then today It stopped working all together. Oh the fuse is still good too.
I have no idea what to do.

Hi Jeff, having no blower motor op this time of year is"not cool" well it is actually.

Sounds like you might have more than one issue.

First the one problem Gloyal points out

Two of the speeds that failed were from a bad resistor block.

Located Under the glove box behind the blower motor. pictured here

Power is fed to the blower motor directly from theblower relay (located under the dash above the ECU (there will be several there).With the key on you should see power on one wireat the blower.

Speed is controlled by the switch using the resistorsin the block. This puts the negative or ground side on the motor.Note: high speed (#4) is direct and by passes the resistor block giving full ground to the motor.

Sounds like your blower may have had issues(mice nests most common). This causing it to drawmore current that it should but not enough to blow the fuse

I'll check it out. I have the blower motor out and there wasn't any kind of nest in there I was thinking the same thing. But It could be that one of those blocks just "gave up" it has 225,000 miles on it so little things like this might be bound to happen. Thank you for the advice.

I got into it, and did all the stuff you guys said. I still had no fan blowing, so I took the blower motor apart, just to find that it had work the brushes all the way down the the copper wire, then through the wire. The only thing left was the spring and a lot of shavings.